World Wave Energy

The World Wave Energy Potential

The HUGWorld Wave Energy is a game changer. It promises to bring electricity created from ocean wave energy to the ocean shores of the world at a very low cost.

The following images are located along the coast wherever there is a natural small bay. This type of topography reduces the cost of the reservoir.

At a River Outlet:

This approach adds river water to the height of the reservoir if flooding is not an issue. This approach includes the possibility of adding moreHUGs.

United States: Alaska

Alaska Wave Energy: Bear IslandAlaska Wave Energy: Yakutat

Argentina: Extreme South

Argentina Wave Energy: Terra del Fuego

Norway: near Farstad

Norway Wave Energy: Farstad

Namibia: Fish River Canyon

Namibia Wave Energy: Fish River Canyon

Guatemala

Guatemala Wave Energy

Now enter a new use which is more profitable: the creation of electricity. Now it makes sense to spend over $25 million on the project because of a very lucrative return on investments: 19%/year in first year to 105%/year thereafter.

THINKING “OUT OF THE BOX”

We have been waiting for a wave energy solution for the last 40 years. There have been a dozen approaches with a lot of activity in the last ten years, but there have been no resounding commercial successes. Most ideas are replicated from other ideas in the box.

This HUG Wave Energy System is “out of the box” and it will cause an Energy Revolution.

BUILDING THE HUGARTIFICIAL REEF

The formula for Kinetic Energy is

KE= ½ x A x V 3 x (.35) efficiency (A = area swept; Velocity)

Diameter of the Helical Turbine in the HUG is 1 m. The radius is 0.5 m: A = π r2 = π (0.5)2 = .785 m2

HIGH WAVES DURING STRONG PREVAILING WIND

The overtopping technique which creates a high slab wave created by an artificial reef allows for more flexibility: the HUGcan be located in more places facing the prevailing winds that may only have moderate wave action. Other overtopping wave energy systems have to be built where there are high waves, which may be too far away from the population. The HUG system creates slab waves from average wave action at the desired location.

The HUG has very low cost of construction: an artificial reef, a reservoir and the light-weight HUG System

On average, a competitive wave power plantcan cost around $6-10 million to create one Megawatt of electricity. The average HUG Power Plant cost $25 million to produce 1.5 MW to 9.3 MW ($2.7 million/ Megawatt). Theinvestment earns an average of $3 million/year for a Return on Investment of 12% in the first year. The operating cost is very low during its entire life-time of 30 years: $0.018/kWh. An annual offsetting green energy grant of $0.01/kWh will reduce this operating cost. The selling price exceeds $0.08/kWh. The comparative price in Hawaii exceeds $0.30/kWh. (The pay-back period is estimated to be one year in Hawaii.)

Say goodbye to diesel oil.

Budget Allowance: $25,000,000

HUG System: 24% $5,900,000

Dredging, Stonework & Concrete 31% 7,700,000*

Engineering Planning and Design: 12% 3,115,000

Contingency, Insurance, Legal costs: 8% 2,040,000

Artificial Reef 6% 1,300,000

O & M First Year: 5% 1,050,000

Ten Year Refit 4% 835,000

Loan Interest 2.5% 625,000

Installation 2.5% 625,000

Facilities 2.5% 625,000

Mooring 2% 420,000

Construction Management 2% 420,000

Sub-sea pipeline 1% 200,000

Budget Allowance: $24,855,000

Say: $25,000,000

On some more desirable locations, the civil works of $7.7 million can be reduced to $1 million to $2 million.

Reliable: not like solar or wind energy with no noise pollution and no oil spills or coal deaths.

Area Efficiency: less than a half square mile of ocean produced 300 MW (the density of water is 800 times higher than air)

Flexibility: they can be located along the shore where most populations exist and where there are prevailing winds.

Ideal for Islands: that depend on expensive imported oil

Predictable and Consistent: in areas of prevailing winds

The HUGdoes not disrupt marine life. Any fish caught in the turbine will experience a twist but they will not be chopped up.

The HUG can be located in more places that only have moderate wave action.

Wave power doesn’t get much attention, but technologies for extracting energy from ocean motion could end up following the same growth curves that we have seen for wind and, more recently, solar power. A theme among wave power experts is that wave energy is where wind energy was three decades ago.

Overtopping Device

The closest concept to the HUG Wave Energy System is the Wave Dragon overtopping device as shown above. The difference is that the above system is built like a large heavy ship so as not to be jostled by strong waves. Their system does not use the physics of the slab wave and the principle of the vortex, which creates much higher velocity. Hence, in order to maximize the velocity of the waves, they are forced to place their system in the location of high waves, which may not be a convenient location.

The HUG can be located in places with average ocean waves close to populations:

There have been a lot of wasted efforts in solving wave energy problems because of wrong pathways: too big, too mechanical. There have been no real great commercial successes. This may be the real reason why big companies like GE have not entered into the fray.

Besides providing electricity, the HUGWave Energy System can produce hydrogen, which is less expensive than imported oil to the islands and is more environmentally sustainable. The secret of hydrogen electrolysis is the low cost of electricity, which must be kept under $0.05/kWh. The high cost of transmission of hydrogen can be eliminated by building hydrogen filling stations for automobiles and trucks right at the site of HUGWave Energy System: the frontage on shore ranges up to 280 m.

Besides providing electricity, the HUGWave Energy System can provide fresh water from an electrolysis system that is activated by high pressure water: a Reverse Osmosis Desalination process. Typical operating costs will range from $2/Kgal of fresh water, because of the low price of electricity:$0.01/kWh

Wherever there are surfers on any island or in any ocean going country, you can create electricity.Around the coasts of Northern Ireland and the west coast of Scotland, are some of the richest reserves of renewable energy in Europe, with the strongest winds and the largest waves.

The HUG Artificial Reef will provide safesurfing on great slab waves over 200′ long close to population centers in a tourist area without the danger of sharp rock formations and urchins.